| Rewriting North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative Contributor(s): March, Kathleen N. (Editor), Kaup, Monika (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820449563 ISBN-13: 9780820449562 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $111.29 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 818.508 |
| LCCN: 00039076 |
| Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, |
| Physical Information: 356 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How does Chicano/a studies reconceptualize North American studies? Why do borders and borderlands figure so prominently in Chicano/a narrative and criticism? Rewriting North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative discusses three aspects of the Mexican American experience: the history of native origins in the borderlands, the (im)migrant experience, and the Chicana experience. They all produce narratives derived from the U.S.-Mexico border in its physical, political, psychological, and imaginative dimensions, and each (re)writes a distinct cultural poetics of that key site. A comprehensive study of Chicano/a narrative since the 1960s, this book presents theory combined with sensitive and detailed readings of most major (and many minor) Chicana and Chicano writers, including Gloria Anzald a, Norma Cant , Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Ernesto Galarza, Rolando Hinojosa, Rub n Mart nez, Cherr e Moraga, Alejandro Morales, Am rico Paredes, Estela Portillo Trambley, Tom s Rivera, Richard Rodriguez, Jos Villareal, Victor Villase or, and others. |
